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Luis Arce Gomez
Colonel Luis Arce Gomez was a Bolivian military officer. Of strong conservative, anti-communist persuasion, in 1980 he backed the bloody coup (sometimes referred to as the "Cocaine Coup") that brought to power the infamous General Luis Garcia Meza. Indeed, Arce served as Garcia Meza's right-hand man and Minister of the Interior.
Arce Gomez's tenure as Bolivia's chief repressor including the passing of such measures as the banning of all political parties, the incarceration and/or exile of most political opponents, the repression of the unions, and the censorship of the media. Among Garcia Meza and Arce's collaborators were former Nazi officer ...
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